Inspired by Cards Only I made this card with design paper from Prima Marketing (Madeline), Spellbinders dies, Crealies branch and punches from EK Success and Martha Stewart. The medaillon is a small buckle from Xenos. I gave it a pink touch..

The first thing I did was stroll along all the stands and look at all the products and creations. If I see something nice, I write down the price, the stand number and the name of the shop. After the last stand I take a look at my list and go back to the stand which offers me the best bargain. That's how I collect my "treasures"(*broad smile*). So here they are: 2 creatables from Marianne Design, 2 boxes Distress ink (aged mahogany en forest moss), medium brush for colouring stamped images, black ink refill Stazon, Viva Decor stamp set (Christmas borders & frames) and 4 (!) nestability sets from Spellbinders. Those were really a bargain (I mention this to take away my feeling of guilt haha..)! I wish you all lots of crafting fun!

Today I visited the fair in Den Bosch. I saw so many cute things. Made a deal with myself (but I do not always listen to myself haha..) that I wouldn't buy any design papers. But I do had some dies on my wishlist... Tomorrow I'll show you my catch...

... to make cake pops. This time I used Martha Stewart's frosting recipe: 45 gr unsalted butter, 200 gr confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 pinch salt. I crumbled the cake and added the frosting. Took portions with an ice cream slice and made little balls. Dipped lollypop sticks in melted chocolat, sticked them in the cakeballs and let them dry. Dipped cake pops in melted chocolat. Decorated them with chocolat confetti.

Result: mwaaa. I'm not satisfied. The cake pops are too heavy to put upright, so properly decorating doesn't succeed. The cake is too rich. Next time I use a recipe without adding butter and sugar. I also have to make the portions smaller. Pff, it seems so easy if you watch the photo's.. for now I'm done with cake haha..

This morning I tried to make some cake pops together with my eldest one. These little cake lollypops look so cute. A lot of recipes are in English and we (sorry: I) confused the terms "frosting" and "icing" because the translation of both terms in Dutch mean the same... We had to crumble the cake into little pieces and mix it with frosting (butter cream) instead of icing (glazing). The result was a sticky mass instead of a solid little ball. Well, soon we'll give it another try and hopefully you'll see the nice result here. (Our failure landed on the compost pile...)